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Feel free to discuss any topic related to the Mitchell Camera. Both 35 mm and 16 mm models are welcomed here. Also consider posting topics of other major motion picture cameras that you feel are important to the development of the Mitchell Camera.

Update: You may have noticed that we have returned to just one category as opposed to dividing the forum into 7 different areas. Apparently, it was an unpopular change and returning to the old format will allow posters to find their submissions more easily.
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What caught my eye was the sentence saying "for the first time in history". Did it take Mitchell this long after the war to catch up with production of the 16mm camera? Or, was the 16mm camera built only after the order came in? Is there any way to know how many Mitchell 16 Professional Cameras were built?

Admin has several catalogues and brochures for this camera in the "Frequently Used Links" - "Original Brochures" folder. The 1st sales brochure is from 1946. Is that the year the 16mm camera was introduced?

In my career, I've looked at, and touched a 16 Pro Camera only once. This camera was in a Blimp. It was in the 1980s that I saw it. The camera was on a sound stage in Chicago. It was on a permanent set that was shooting a popular TV series. I was amazed at the complexity of the blimped camera. Yet, I knew the Mitchell had a steadier movement than the Arri 16SR I was usually shooting with. The Mitchell 16 was owned by the production company, and was only used to shoot the star of the show on this set. Amazing. I was amazed that this part of the show was shot on 16mm with the very slow Kodak ECO 7252 (the key light on the talent was a M-R Baby 10er). The D.o.P. of this portion of the show was an ASC member. He was the only ASC member from and living in Chicago that I knew of.